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		<title>Blasphemer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned on the BBC news website yesterday that the blasphemy laws are likely to be repealed. This news came as quite a shock to me as I didn&#8217;t even know we still had blasphemy as an offence. It&#8217;s just so Dark Ages!
I don&#8217;t know why it is but whenever I hear the word &#8216;blasphemy&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My God Is Better Than Your God</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fellow Witanagemot member, L&#8217;Ombre de l&#8217;Olivier has bought to my attention a debate taking place in the Washington Post between Michael Gerson and our old friend Christopher Hitchens on the nature of atheism. I am not about to quote any of these articles but they are all worth a read.
What really rankles with me is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbarism Twenty First Century Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have tried &#8211; really, I have tried. I have read books and websites. I have watched documentaries and interviews. I have had conversations. And without fail, every Muslim tells me that theirs is a religion of tolerance and peace; that they abhor violence; that they cherish human dignity and human life. They tell me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever You Do, Don&#8217;t Get Raped In Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/487/whatever-you-do-dont-get-raped-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Pakistans independent Human Rights Commission, somewhere in the country a woman is raped every two hours and one is gang-raped every eight hours. And this is thought to be a vast under-estimate as most rapes are not reported. And why are they not reported? Because rape cases are dealt with in strict Sharia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veiled Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following a case where legal adviser Shabnam Mughal refused to remove her head-wear during an immigration tribunal in Stoke-on-Trent and the judge adjourned the case because he couldn&#8217;t hear her speak, guidelines have been established by immigration tribunals chief Mr Justice Hodge.
Legal advisers and solicitors may wear the Islamic veil in court unless it interferes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Matter Of Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unrecognisable being on the right is, of course, Aishah Azmi, who today lost her tribunal hearing where she claimed she was a victim of religious discrimination following her suspension by Headfield Church of England Junior School at Dewsbury for refusing to remove her veil whilst working as a classroom assistant. Well, she claimed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent Design</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/440/intelligent-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, we are told, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger spends a long weekend with his former graduate students for an informal debate on issues of the day. A topic is chosen and they seclude themselves away for some serious discussion. The topic of this years debate, which is going on as I write this, is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now They&#8217;ve Gone And Given Jesus A Rocket-Launcher</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/379/now-theyve-gone-and-given-jesus-a-rocket-launcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are, apparently, a series of very successful novels published by a Christian Fundamentalist movement in the USA known as &#8216;Left Behind&#8217; &#8211; dealing fictionally with the Apocalypse and it&#8217;s aftermath. I know little more as I find all this sort of stuff rather distasteful and the small amount I did learn was enough. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And I Thought I Knew What Tolerance Meant</title>
		<link>http://www.yellowswordfish.com/304/and-i-thought-i-knew-what-tolerance-meant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported in newspapers around the world this week, one Abdul Rahman has landed himself in an Afghanistan courtroom charged with converting to Christianity. He was even found to be carrying a Bible when arrested, after being shopped by his own family.
Under Islamic Sharia law, still practised in Afghanistan despite the western-friendly puppet government, &#8216;rejecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy History!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy @ Yellow Swordfish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been big news that Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh &#8211; who along with Henry Lincoln wrote the bestselling book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail &#8211; are suing Dan Brown, author of the wildly successful novel The Da Vinci Code.
They claim that Brown &#8216;stole the ideas&#8216; and &#8216;the whole architecture&#8216; of research [...]]]></description>
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